Míla Rechcígl, SVU Scholar-in-Residence and one of the founders and Past President of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) of many years, has written a monumental work, representing a culmination of his life achievement as a historian of Czech America. Although a biochemist and science administrator, by training and profession, his love has been really in immigration history and in the study of Czech Americans and their contributions to the growth and the development of the United States.

In The Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography Volume I, II and III, he has written a monumental work representing a culmination of his life achievement as a historian of Czech America.